New York: Walking through the New York ACORN office in Brooklyn organizers would look for an excuse to ask me if I had seen “the kiss.” An up and coming politician from Westchester elected with support from the Working Family Party, which we support in New York, also asked me about it. The kiss was the …
Month: May 2005
Water Wars Come to Mexico
Mexico City: It was a last minute invitation from fellow travelers in the water wars from Canada with the Polaris Institute who issued the call to meet with community based and indigenous groups from around Mexico meeting to look at the emerging issues of water privatization. There was no way to say no. Landing on …
Peoples’ Pollster: Celinda Lake
Seattle: One of the big hits of the Organizers’ Forum had to be our old friend, the peoples’ pollster: Celinda Lake. Some of us have known Celinda virtually since she came out of Montana decades ago, but in the time since she has been the pollster of choice whenever an ACORN or the AFL-CIO or …